Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 396

Amateur Radio Weekly

Icom to release updated IC-7300 MK2 and ID-5200
The Icom ID-5200 is a successor to the popular Icom ID-5100.
GigaParts

Build a miniature hotspot for M17
This may be one of the simplest hotspot builds ever. Works with D-STAR, YSF, M17, DMR, P25, NXDN, and POCSAG.
The Random Wire

QuadNet multi-mode digital network
Supports DMR, D-Star, Yaesu System Fusion/C4FM, and M17.
QuadNet

How To get precise time outside your shack
Often when I decide to do POTA, I just grab my gear and go forgetting to sync my laptop’s time. When I get to the park, my system clock can be 5-30 seconds off which means I can’t do FT8.
Ham Radio Hacks

Progress in the revolution: Sunspot cycle forecast accuracy at Cycle 25 peak
Our goal has been to determine if there is Kuhnian movement (Kuhn 1962) toward a revolution in the long-standing paradigm for the sunspot cycle at the midpoint of Cycle 25.
Dr. Scott McIntosh

My first ever RTTY contact
In February 1984 I borrowed a Creed 444 teleprinter.
QSO365

Installing a permanent remote HF station in the Atlantic Ocean
A structure standing in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in fifty feet of water on Frying Pan Shoals, 32 miles off the coast of Southport, North Carolina, in international waters.
OnAllBands

HackTVLive
A Go application that captures live video from your webcam and transmits it as an NTSC analog television signal using a HackRF SDR device.
Sarah Rose

The mysterious shortwave radio station stoking US-Russia nuclear fears
A popular shortwave Russian radio station dubbed UVB-76 has been an enigma for decades.
WIRED

TAP
A Morse alternative mode for the Ham, with no need for training.
SV3ORA

Video

T41-EP Open Source DIY SDR HF radio
The T41-EP is an Open Source, 20W, 7-band HF CW/SSB software defined transceiver designed as an experimenter’s platform.
K5YVY

Interview with ARRL CEO David Minster NA2AA
A discussion about the most recent ARRL board meeting as well as an update on the Huntsville Hamfest.
DX Mentor

Morse Code on 2m and microwave?
Join Di KO6BTM and Ormoo the SOTA Cat on an easy SOTA peak.
KO6BTM

Build a radio to receive pictures from space like it’s 1994
Everything I need to receive weather satellite pictures using software, tools, and components that (probably) would’ve been available to an amateur in 1994.
Old Computers Sucked

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